From: Csaba Henk <csaba@..._for_avoiding_spam.org>
Date: 2005-04-11T16:44:38+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] fxirb 0.2.0 - Multiline Edit (and request for help)

On 2005-04-11, Martin DeMello <martindemello@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Csaba Henk <csaba@phony_for_avoiding_spam.org> wrote:
>> > FOX to see what I need to do. To see the problem, just start up FXIrb
>> > and type in "a = gets")
>> 
>> What's the problem? As you can see, I can't try this now.
>
> The whole thing just hangs up (windows says 'this application is not
> responding'). I thought it might be infinitely recursing
> FXIRBInputMethod#gets, but it isn't, so I'm at a bit of a loss as how to
> even debug it (no stack trace).

A line read by irb is evaluated in an IRB::Irb instance (that class is
defined in irb.rb). As I can read fxirb.rb, you didn't overwrite #gets
anywhere seeked by IRB::Irb upon method lookup. So what happens is that
the good old Kernel#gets is called.

Csaba